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26th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has suggested that internet access solutions which attract a low marginal cost, such as Mobile Broadband, Satellite and WiFi, are now likely to play a bigger then expected part in the UK and Europe’s strategy for expanding broadband coverage into rural areas.

25th February, 2013 (16 Comments)

The Independent Networks Cooperative Association, which supports the development of Next Generation Access networks around the United Kingdom, has revealed a new Framework that could help smaller ISPs (altnets) to challenge BT and benefit from state aid for deploying superfast broadband services into rural areas.

25th February, 2013 (1 Comment)

It’s more than a mere question of independence. The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which is a central hub for much of the internet traffic that comes into and goes out of the United Kingdom, is exploring the possibility of building a new regional peering hub (IXP) in Scotland.

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25th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Kent-based fixed wireless ISP VFast has become the latest internet provider to be hit by rodents with a seemingly insatiable appetite for fibre optic cables. In fact for almost a month the pesky critters have been busily attempting to nibble their way through one of BT’s key fibre spine cables in Canterbury, which supplies VFast.

25th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has today issued a Draft Statement that formally notifies the European Commission (EC) of their proposal to cut the price that ISPs, mobile operators and businesses pay to BT for wholesale Leased Line services at speeds of above 1Gbps in all parts of the UK except London and Hull.

25th February, 2013 (11 Comments)

TalkTalk Business, which back in 2011 warned SME’s that “domestic grade broadband is not designed to cope with the demands of running a business“, appears to have changed its tune. A large number of their customers have now received letters which confirm that they’ll soon be migrated to the ISPs residential TalkTalk Plus package.

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23rd February, 2013 (4 Comments)

Consumers within reach of the Digital Region telecoms network in South Yorkshire (England) should take note that one of its ISPs, Origin Broadband, has returned to offering a free installation (saves £50) and half price service (first three months) alongside their superfast unlimited broadband (FTTC) packages.

22nd February, 2013 (14 Comments)

The Welsh Government has today announced the first 8 locations to benefit from its part publicly funded £425m roll-out of superfast broadband ISP services across Wales (UK), which initially aims to make internet download speeds of up to 80Mbps available to 96% of Welsh premises by the end of 2015.

22nd February, 2013 (3 Comments)

The latest Q4-2012 internet tariff analysis from Quantum-Web has claimed that an 86p (1 Euro) decline in the price of fibre optic based superfast broadband ISP tariffs can be equated to an increase of over 400,000 new subscribers in Europe between Q4-2009 and the end of last year.

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22nd February, 2013 (7 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media should take note that the cable operators Traffic Management policy, which slows the download speed of heavy users and P2P file sharing services during peak times (evenings), has been moved because Tablets and Smartphones are changing how people use the internet.

21st February, 2013 (17 Comments)

The Broadband For the Rural North (B4RN) project has told this week’s FTTH Conference 2013 in London that they’ve now managed to connect 157 homes in Lancashire’s (England) Lower Lune Valley to its 1000Mbps capable community built and funded Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network.

21st February, 2013 (3 Comments)

The government’s Broadband Delivery UK office has released new guidance for local authorities on the use of state aid (public funding) in support of deploying NGA fixed wireless access (FWA) networks. The guidance, much like existing EU rules, makes it possible for wireless ISPs to engage in the process but only under strict conditions.

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21st February, 2013 (2 Comments)

Last nights soft launch of Sony’s forthcoming PlayStation 4 video games console might not have revealed as much as we would have liked but it did tell us something. Future owners will almost certainly benefit from a faster broadband ISP connection, one where low latency and better upload speeds will be crucial.

21st February, 2013 (3 Comments)

South Yorkshire ISP LittleBigOne (Digital Region) has announced that it will donate £10 to any one of four different local charities whenever a new customer subscribes to its superfast broadband (FTTC) packages before the end of 2013.

20th February, 2013 (8 Comments)

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published the results of a new study that claims to provide a “comprehensive assessment” of the social, economic and environmental impacts of its investment to help improve broadband ISP networks around the United Kingdom.

20th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest Point Topic and Broadband Forum study for Q3-2012 has revealed that the world is now home to a total of 635.9 million broadband subscribers. But most interesting of all is how fibre optic (FTTx) based ISP technologies have overtaken cable (e.g. Virgin Media) to become the second largest method of internet connectivity after DSL (ADSL etc.).

20th February, 2013 (1 Comment)

The governments Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released its latest Internet Access Quarterly Update Q4-2012, which reveals that a total of 43.07 million UK adults have used the internet (85% of the population). The number of adults who have never gone online stands at 7.42 million (15%) and happily this has declined by 3% since Q3-2012.

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